This Solo Sailor Looped the NW Passage and Cape Horn Twice in One Epic Year
BY JEFF MOAG | OCTOBER 23, 2019
Randall Reeves has always loved to sail but didn’t make his first big voyage until 2010, when he was 48 years old. He started with a bang—a solo circumnavigation of the Pacific in a 30-foot sailboat. It was supposed to last a year and quench his thirst for long voyages. Instead, it took two years. It also had him thinking bigger.
“I always wanted to sail around the world,” Reeves told AJ last week. “But that had already been done.”
Eventually, the answer came to him: A circumnavigation of North and South America and Antarctica in a single year, starting and ending from his home port of San Francisco. The voyage would total something more than 40,000 miles and include two of the most mythical passages in the sailing pantheon: the Northwest Passage, and Cape Horn, which he would do twice. He called it the Figure Eight.It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
